The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

As part of these efforts, the Foundation announces its 2025 recipient of the DOH Fellowship Program to develop and implement a project that supports physicians in their understanding of DOH and how it can be integrated into medical practices. As the U.S.

Chronic Disease 40

Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Summary Transcript CME Summary When treating heart failure, how do we distinguish between the expanding list of medications recommended for “Guideline Directed Medical Therapy” (GDMT) and what might be considered runaway polypharmacy? He’s a medical director of H ebrew S enior L ife outpatient clinic at Newbridge.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: But we know that physiologic changes with aging, like decreasing night vision and so forth, as well as medications, as well as medical conditions, can all affect whether you can drive. So we’re trying to help replace the transportation option. They’re really not. Eric: Yeah.

IT 102

IT Family Families Diagnosis 102

Doctor Rachel

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

This is a HUGE subject and this is a brief attempt to organize my early thoughts on right relationship, through the lens of my own life. Marriage and relationship, certainly. I had an interdisciplinary major in college and a medical school experience integrated with graduate work in the humanities. Creating community.

Relationship 130

Relationship Community IT Family 130

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. Katie: Yep.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues. Some will have stronger relationships with hospice.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Alex 00:23 All right, first, we’re welcoming back Ricky Le it er, who’s a palliative care doc at Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is co-founder of the Palliative Story Exchange. I’ve been running a medical storytelling program called the Nocturnus.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Family 107

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. It’s somebody different every month, and you never develop that relationship. I would go into somebody’s home where I could do a visual check.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89